Queen Elizabeth photographed walking among her HUGE stash of gold bars

[awake]

She got those gold bars by producing what again? Certainly not by offering a good or service...well, her signature royal wave could be considered air conditioning services I guess. But that's reaching a little. She fits nicly in the category of unjustly rich, and from slavery too.

 

[S.Shorland]

Something IS up.Very definitely.

 

[devil21]

Make it a few hundred and you would be right,and England for most of time was not known as the wealthy part of Europe.Also one king with a bad addiction usually pissed most of the wealth in his life time no matter if it was spent on war or building palaces ( building stupid things has destroyed more kingdoms than war ).

Depends on far back you want to go and how much you want to dissect the history of English monarchy. I should have said a thousand years but it's certainly not just the last few hundred years, either.

First King of the English, circa 920AD:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athelstan

You can amass a lot of wealth in 1100 years. A lot more than some Saudi sheikhs that were considered rulers of barren desert until 1938, when oil was discovered in Saudi Arabia.

 

[Matt Collins]

Why doesn't that gold tarnish when sitting in the air like that?

Gold is a very stable element, it doesn't react much at all.

 

[jazzyjey]

I literally laughed out loud!

 

[devil21]

I just read over on ATS that the Queen is also sitting in on a closed cabinet meeting shortly, which apparently is damn near unheard of for the royals to do.

 

[DFF]

I just read over on ATS that the Queen is also sitting in on a closed cabinet meeting shortly, which apparently is damn near unheard of for the royals to do.

Interesting...maybe she's trying to reassert control over the kingdom before SHTF...and if so, what took so long?

And for people who say the Queen doesn't have any power, behold -

Domestic Affairs
The appointment and dismissal of ministers;
The summoning, prorogation and dissolution of Parliament;
Royal assent to bills;
The appointment and regulation of the civil service;
The commissioning of officers in the armed forces;
Directing the disposition of the armed forces in the UK;
Appointment of Queen's Counsel;
Issue and withdrawal of passports;
Prerogative of mercy. (Used to apply in capital punishment cases. Still used, eg to remedy errors in sentence calculation)
Granting honours;
Creation of corporations by Charter;

Foreign Affairs
The making of treaties;
Declaration of war;
Deployment of armed forces overseas;
Recognition of foreign states;
Accreditation and reception of diplomats.

She can shit-can the Prime Minister, dissolve Parliament, and is commander and chief of the military...

 

[devil21]

True that. She's knights people, man. Knights.

 

[Acala]

She is a figurehead but has no real ruling powers.

If she points at you and shouts "Seize Him!!" They will seize you, just because she's the Queen. Of course they will then let you go and apologize.

 

[Acala]

Interesting...maybe she's trying to reassert control over the kingdom before SHTF...and if so, what took so long?

And for people who say the Queen doesn't have any power, behold -



She can shit-can the Prime Minister, dissolve Parliament, and is commander and chief of the military...

I had no idea. Very interesting.

 

[HOLLYWOOD]

I just read over on ATS that the Queen is also sitting in on a closed cabinet meeting shortly, which apparently is damn near unheard of for the royals to do.

If you see the Queen & company and/or the cabinet disappear tomorrow or the next day, you'll know something is up: 12/21/12 lol! Watch all those politicians... they're the first snakes to run and hide when things turn sour.